Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fb35b8fb88443ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:34:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 211dc13435350f6d13e4830310907846 SHA-1: b6c7ef36f79c46484e185a1c5892560b96d1bf11 SHA-256: 7fb35b8fb88443ce5ebea5afc5e37c763f8514ffe5c38a5fb85ed20a9fc861c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lineage+cell+therapeutics+inc PDF link annotation
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/60414284490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tycoonmarine.com/userfiles/files/5453871176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/480a5af017b395ab962b7e1eb0f7553c/71365740611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfes42f6qvhb13gfe8uh4cgv35/20304066622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81837cc39738afe6817daa389cd3baef/linabaxusekufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1f136dc2e---lotofetarikefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60ad5b2532---3605271630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/pubarogiwokuvumepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c36d4638f---gumubenujiresesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/13549395375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/jeloxobetelisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837bf7c9482---6372456231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/vikevuwano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870b541e56d---lamuzitoremujasowega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7lbgihrtruc3hc7mdijurdtd2/2080180257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/nadawusosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d454d49f54608f8f23bfe580bfac7b2/4622894791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c215e90ee---wobukutisuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/59821697287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22eb5d4a6e---sawabalinupetabigosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakkervoorwinde.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/waxadazigasezagimevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2fc5n8blg8ra05aiq63di3qc2/mixisoxikujojarovebixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018bcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BCD 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 3344c66b5ca4555a292adaea8edb00aa50dc0663a0975259507a1a562c5610ce
font_01_sfnt_off0001a3e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A3E0 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 0e62dc3c16f05c46126f250d7898ea373a81a00f5870276ae9278b70253a439b
font_02_sfnt_off0001d3fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D3FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1